Poetry Hut Blog
Paul Guest

Poetry News:

1. — rarely has a work of literature ignited or inspired a new sporting event —
2. — he reviewed four of the original Frost notebooks housed in Boston University’s archives and found “roughly one thousand” errors in Mr. Faggen’s work —
3. — ‘Poe Toaster’ avoids being spotted at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave —
4. — Confrontation, the award-winning literary magazine of Long Island University, celebrates its 40th anniversary this month —
5. — There aren’t many poets landing book deals these days, let alone preempts by major houses, but last week it happened twice —
6. — Observations of nature at her most benevolent, when each living thing relishes life, serve only to illuminate our dismissal of the natural world t —

Haven’t we suffered enough?

Poetry News:

1. — Poetry Chronicle —
2. — Poems on the frontiers; a lobster lesson on the sea
3. — Jenny Holzer Makes Light of Poems and Beats Swords Into Paintings —
4. — Pakistani’s Poem Offers Hope in Despairing Time —
5. — In ‘Telephone Ringing,’ Adrienne Rich makes music of words —
6. — Here is Arizona poet Steve Orlen’s lovely tribute to the great opera singer, Maria Callas —
7. — Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world —
8. — Creative Work Has Health Advantages, Population Research Center Study Shows —
9. — Dylan Thomas’s passport can now be viewed online thanks to the National Library of Wales [more] —
10. — An “honest guildsman” of a poet melds the political and the personal —
11. — Possibly the most moving use of a poet’s own name in English poetry is Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son —

Poetry News:

1. — Blog or self-published (logroll) “reviews” are not reliable sources [link found here] —
2. — a unique film festival was held where poetry was the focus of the cinematic medium —
3. — Exploring Gertrude Stein’s nooks and crannies —
4. — Synchronously with the growing decline of the novel we are witnessing the beginning of a new golden age of poetry and the interesting spectacle of hard- headed publishers armed with fat contracts scrambling to annex each new poet of promise who “swims within their ken,” according to George P. Brett, President of the Macmillan Company, who is in London on business —
5. — A PRIZED POET: Winner of prestigious award links art form to influences of daily life —
6. — I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium —
7. — “The blood jet is poetry / There is no stopping it” —
8. — In The Circuit by Alice Notley —
9. — Stray Questions for: Kay Ryan —

Well this was an icky experience yesterday & only partially successful due to my freakishly malformed interior nasal septum environment. But it was a good try. (Still having ear problems & quite a lot of pain.) Getting the septum fixed in Dec I think — I’m talking to the surgeon at Vanderbilt about it soon. They are supposed to be good, but, a.) it’s my face b.) it’s my freaking ***SKULL*** and c.) it’s my face. Plus like your brain is right there too, isn’t it?

Poetry News:

1. — Paul Guest, a poet who teaches at West Georgia, will be in New York Wednesday to accept the prestigious $50,000 Whiting Prize and Whiting Award Winners Announced — [congrats]
2. — Indian politician and wife jailed for murder plot against Hindu poetess —
3. — Solitary Woman in a Glass House: Visual Translations of Emily Dickinson Poems —
4. — Poetry unlocks woman’s memory —
5. — She also sent poems, letters, packages saturated in perfume, a petrified alligator head, dead beetles and other items —
6. — From Old to New Media: Blog Begets Publishing House —
7. — These excerpts from Moore’s letters feature her correspondences with numerous literary figures, including Pound, Cummings, and William Carlos Williams —
8. — 13 Percent of Collection Misplaced, Survey Finds —
9. — Our findings suggest that it is in fact Democrats, not Republicans, who tend to favor the DH. In addition, we find no effect for respondents”™ proximity to American or National League teams, though older respondents were consistently more likely to oppose the rule. —

Today is my honey’s birthday. It’s celebration week.

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